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This Linux Tool Lets You Search DuckDuckGo in the Terminal  How-To Geek

Intel's ISPC project as the Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as this C language variant for Single Program, Multiple Data programming on CPUs and GPUs is out with a new release...

5 Reasons to Install a Linux VM (And 5 Reasons Not To)  How-To Geek

New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel. He still intends to contribute code to Asahi Linux's downstream kernel and Linus Torvalds has already merged the patch dropping him as an upstream maintainer. Now a new co-maintainer has volunteered to help oversee the Apple Silicon code for the mainline kernel...

Linux FineIBT-BHI Updated For Toughening Up FineIBT Kernel Defenses  Phoronix

Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra has updated his set of patches implementing FineIBT-BHI mitigations for toughening up the FineIBT kernel protections previously introduced. This FineIBT-BHI code depends upon newly-merged code for the LLVM Clang compiler as part of the compiler defenses...

Following the release of Wine 10.1 on Friday for kicking off the new bi-weekly development releases after last month's Wine 10.0 stable release, Wine-Staging 10.1 is out today to get things moving once again for this experimental flavor of Wine...

For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files...

I Love Linux, But I Daily Drive a Mac for This Reason  How-To Geek

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week were two competing solutions for new LLVM Clang capability / thread safety analysis to the Linux kernel. Two developers had separately been working on implementations for the Linux kernel to make use of Clang's "-Wthread-safety" functionality. Ultimately the upstream kernel will likely settle upon the superior or unified solution while already making use of these new checks is uncovering Linux kernel bugs...

Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Bluefin, a Next-Gen Linux Workstation for Containerized Apps  The New Stack

How Linux Helped Me Avoid Spending Money on a School Chromebook  How-To Geek

Changing a few lines of code in Linux could apparently save hyperscalers billions, research claims, but I am not convinced  MSN

GNU G-Golf v0.8 Released For Writing GTK Apps In Guile/Scheme  Phoronix

Years in the making, GNU G-Golf 0.8 was released on Friday as a significant release for this GNU project. No, it's not a golfing simulator or anything like that, but rather a Guile Object Library for GNOME so that you can develop GTK applications from the Guile/Scheme programming language...

FEX 2502 Delivers Fix For Steam, Multi-Block Improvements For Better Performance  Phoronix

FEX 2502 is out today as the newest monthly feature release to this user-space emulator for running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on ARM64 Linux including the likes of Wine/Proton and Steam for being able to enjoy modern games on AArch64 Linux systems...

The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week. Plasma 6.3 is scheduled for its stable debut next Tuesday on 11 February...